I've never understood why MVC is so popular. Any other form of application development, you just look at what your application needs to do and design for that.

I've never understood why MVC is so popular. Any other form of application development, you just look at what your application needs to do and design for that. You might use a pattern, you might not, it depends. But for some reason in web development this is THE ONE TRUE WAY, despite the fact that it's a pretty awkward pattern for a lot of problems. The thing that makes it more baffling is that HTTP and HTML are so simple on their own. Almost all these abstractions being built on top of them are vastly harder to understand then the things they attempt to abstract away in the first place.